Water pollution in the Danjiangkou Reservoir is getting dangerously out of hand. The pollution is getting worse due to the lead in the water and untreated sewage. Water pollution is classified as the contamination of water bodies. The Contamination can be caused from inadequate treatment of pollutants. As said in the book Water Pollution, “much of water pollution comes from factories that make cars, clothing, shoes, refrigerators, computers, and books and they have to get rid of the chemicals and sometimes they dump used chemicals into the rivers, streams, and oceans.” Marilyn Beach makes a good observation in her article, Water, Pollution, And Public Health In China ; “A factory at the water’s edge; not only did it haze the air with putrid
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Beach states in her article, “studies show that over 30 billion tones of urban sewage are discharged into China’s rivers, lakes, and seas each year, with between 2.7 and 10% receiving no prior treatment”. Sewage in the water can lead to many health problems, and the untreated sewage can contain many waterborne infections and parasitic diseases. Chuanfu Zhang’s article, Higher Isolation of NDM-1 Producing Acinetobacter Baumannii from the Sewage of the Hospitals in Beijing, states; “Discharged sewage from hospitals if improperly treated may contain pathogens and antibiotic residues that could lead to acute infections”. The reason why The Reservoir has untreated sewage flowing into it is because the facilities made to treat sewage could not keep up with the discharges. Beach explains, “municipal waste facilities were not adequate to deal with the industrial discharges and waste form rapidly urbanizing towns nearby”. She also interview Han Lanquan director of local Guizhou research institute in her article and he explained, “ While we are improving our ability to monitor and limit industrial discharges, municipal sewage treatment systems are often too expensive for us to build”. The facilities are there to treat the sewage properly but they are not being maintained and they run below
Beach states in her article, “studies show that over 30 billion tones of urban sewage are discharged into China’s rivers, lakes, and seas each year, with between 2.7 and 10% receiving no prior treatment”. Sewage in the water can lead to many health problems, and the untreated sewage can contain many waterborne infections and parasitic diseases. Chuanfu Zhang’s article, Higher Isolation of NDM-1 Producing Acinetobacter Baumannii from the Sewage of the Hospitals in Beijing, states; “Discharged sewage from hospitals if improperly treated may contain pathogens and antibiotic residues that could lead to acute infections”. The reason why The Reservoir has untreated sewage flowing into it is because the facilities made to treat sewage could not keep up with the discharges. Beach explains, “municipal waste facilities were not adequate to deal with the industrial discharges and waste form rapidly urbanizing towns nearby”. She also interview Han Lanquan director of local Guizhou research institute in her article and he explained, “ While we are improving our ability to monitor and limit industrial discharges, municipal sewage treatment systems are often too expensive for us to build”. The facilities are there to treat the sewage properly but they are not being maintained and they run below